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    Climate Systems Analysis Group, Unversity of Cape Town (CSAG)

    CSAG is a dynamic group of multi-disciplinary scientists with research projects linked to all aspects of the climate system.
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    Criteria for sustainable biomass production

    Energy Transition Task Force, 2006
    This report describes the results of work that has been done by the “Sustainable production of biomass” project group on formulating sustainability criteria for the production and processing of biomass for energy, fuels and chemistry.
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    Community risk assessment toolkit

    ProVention Consortium, 2007
    This document details a toolkit aimed at strengthening community level risk assessment practice. It also focuses on ways of influencing disaster risk management decisions, policies and plans at sub-national and national levels. Four main features from the toolkit are discussed: 
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    Twelfth session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN framework convention on climate change and second meeting of the parties to the Kyoto Protocol

    United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 2006
    This paper documents the key outcomes of the two-week United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Nairobi, November 2006. The aim of the conference was to consider the next steps in the international climate effort.
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    How will agriculture adapt to a shifting climate?

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2006
    The paper gives an overview of the ways in which climate change will impact rural societies, in particular poor farmers in developing countries.It predicts that Africa will be hardest hit because of its heavy dependence on agriculture, existing degraded soils and high poverty and tight budget constraints. The authors cover the following areas and suggest steps that farmers, policy makers, and r
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    Portfolio screening to support the mainstreaming of adaptation to climate change in development assistance

    Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, 2007
    Over six development agencies are screening their portfolios with the aim of ascertaining the extent to which exisiting development projects already consider climate risks or address vulnerability to climate variability; and identifying opportunities for incorporating climate change explicitly into future projects.This paper assesses this screening process in order to dentify opportunites for d
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    Coping with climate change

    ICT Update, 2007
    This issue of ICT Update looks at a few pioneering activities African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries are engaged in to mitigate and adapt to climte change.The lead article is entitled: ’Coping with climate change’, which looks at the impacts of climate change on the mangroves of American Somoa, identifying priority areas in which local capacities need to be enhanced.Three other artic
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    Legacy of disasters: the impact of climate change on children

    Save the Children Fund, 2007
    If children already constitute half of those affected by any emergency, how will they be affected by the growing number of climate change disasters? Using examples of recent disasters and projections of likely impacts of climate change, this report looks at how increasingly frequent and severe natural disasters will specifically affect children.
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    id21 viewpoint: Biofuels, climate change and GM crops – who is really benefiting?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Governments, oil companies and agribusinesses all support biofuels as a way to combat climate change. Genetic engineering plays an increasing role in biofuel production. Can replacing fossil fuels with biofuels reduce carbon emissions?
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    Climate Change 2007: Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Summary for Policymakers

    Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2007
    This report sets out the key policy-relevant findings of the Fourth Assessment (also known as AR4) of Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The Assessment is of current scientific understanding of impacts of climate change on natural and human systems, how well these systems are able to adapt and their vulnerability.

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